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Honi Soit
Could USyd be its own country?
Honi Soit
Czech libertarian and founder of 'Liberland,' Vit Jedlicka, invoked terra nullius when claiming a disputed three-square-mile section of the Croatia-Serbia border. Australia's history with these colonial notions of what constitute a nation is surely ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy leader applying for mining permit
Gold Coast Bulletin
“Each time 'Australia' has hosted the games thousands of Aboriginal, Torres Straight islanders as well as other groups who have been oppressed by the crown have united to resist colonial activity and authority,” the Stolenwealth Games Protest Facebook ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy leader applying for mining permit
Gold Coast Bulletin
“Each time 'Australia' has hosted the games thousands of Aboriginal, Torres Straight islanders as well as other groups who have been oppressed by the crown have united to resist colonial activity and authority,” the Stolenwealth Games Protest Facebook ...

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The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages
Phys.Org
These include the Yolŋu languages of Arnhem Land and Arrernte in Central Australia. Yet others (such as Kaurna around Adelaide) are undergoing a renaissance, gaining speakers within their communities. Finally, though not the focus of our study, there ...

Quitting for good
PRWire (press release)
Whilst Australia on the whole is leading the way in terms of low prevalence of tobacco usage, with only around 13 per cent of adults smoking, the country's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population remains disproportionately affected by smoking ...

World Socialist Web Site
Sweet Country: Bitter truths about Aboriginal dispossession in Australia
World Socialist Web Site
Samson and Delilah (2009), Warwick Thornton's first dramatic feature, announced the arrival of a talented filmmaker, committed to exposing some of the realities of the lives of Aboriginal Australians. The critically acclaimed work about two indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister says
ABC Online
"Open adoption — it's not forced, it's not hidden, the child knows where the parents are and the parents know where the children are, but they have a permanent, caring, stable environment in which to grow up, rather than cycling through foster care ...
Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak bodyThe Guardian
Why are white people on Sunrise with no experience calling for Indigenous child removals?SBS - The World Game
Some Politicians And Commentators Are Basically Calling For Another Stolen GenerationJunkee
NEWS.com.au
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ABC Online
Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister says
ABC Online
In most states, a majority of those children are placed within the Indigenous community or with relatives, but in Tasmania and the Northern Territory more Aboriginal children are living in non-Indigenous homes. "What I said is that if there's a non ...
Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak bodyThe Guardian
'So many mistruths': Sunrise cops heat over Aboriginal adoption ...The Sydney Morning Herald
'Sunrise' Actually Called For A Return To the Stolen GenerationsJunkee
The Australian -Courier Mail
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ABC Online
Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak body
The Guardian
Revived arguments about the removal of Indigenous children from their families are just the latest instalment of a “narrow debate” bringing Australia closer to another Northern Territory-style intervention, an Indigenous peak body has said. The ...
Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister saysABC Online
Adoption not a stolen generation: Mundine9news.com.au
Some Politicians And Commentators Are Basically Calling For Another Stolen GenerationJunkee

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ABC Online
Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak body
The Guardian
Revived arguments about the removal of Indigenous children from their families are just the latest instalment of a “narrow debate” bringing Australia closer to another Northern Territory-style intervention, an Indigenous peak body has said. The ...
Some Politicians And Commentators Are Basically Calling For Another Stolen GenerationJunkee
Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister saysABC Online
Adoption not a stolen generation: Mundine9news.com.au

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The Guardian
Norfolk Islanders go to UN to fight Australia over right to self-govern
The Guardian
The Norfolk Islanders are distinct from mainland Australians with regard to all parameters that define ethnicity: homeland, shared ancestry, cultural narrative and cultural core values.” Robertson is representing Albert Fletcher Buffett, an Indigenous ...
The tiny island taking on AustraliaThe Queensland Times
Norfolk Island takes Australia to UN over human rightsThe New Daily

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Katherine Times
New chapter of Indigenous history told through food
Katherine Times
The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland is about to unfold under a new, three-year study led by Flinders University. Picture: supplied. The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape ...

Katherine Times
New chapter of Indigenous history told through food
Katherine Times
The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland is about to unfold under a new, three-year study led by Flinders University. Picture: supplied. The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape ...

Newsweek
National Geographic admits 'racist' decades-long coverage
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...
'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'KACU
National Geographic Publicly Admits 'Appalling' Racism in Stories on Africa, Australia and ElsewhereNewsweek

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SBS
National Geographic admits 'racist' decades-long coverage
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...

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SBS
'Our coverage was racist': National Geographic admits bias against Indigenous Australians
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...
National Geographic editor says decades of coverage was racistNEWS.com.au
National Geographic admits 'appalling' racism of past coverageThe Australian
How National Geographic acknowledged its racist pastThe Guardian
Evening Standard
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SBS
'Our coverage was racist': National Geographic admits bias against Indigenous people
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...
'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'KACU

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SBS
'Our coverage was racist': National Geographic admits bias against Indigenous people
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...

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The Advertiser
We're failing women in prison. We need to act now
The Advertiser
“By far the majority of all women (in prison), and Aboriginal women more so than non-Aboriginal women, have been abused either sexually, physically, mentally or all of the above, and these are the pathways to jail,” said Professor Baldry. The trauma ...

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The West Australian
Meet Lynette Narkle, and join in her journey
The West Australian
In 2004, she forged the role of Indigenous programs officer at Screenwest to increase the engagement of emerging Indigenous filmmakers, in what Lynette described as “exciting times”. “That culminated in Aboriginal people directing and writing for ...